Principal’s Message

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Dear Friends,

The College has made a great start to the 2018 academic year. Our staff and students have settled well into all College activities.

Our students have adapted enthusiastically to the changes in our educational program. They are becoming more familiar with the technology and the new classroom procedures. It is a joy to be in the classrooms and to see your children engaging with their learning and trying new things.

I have also enjoyed meeting with many of you both formally in various meetings and informally around the campus. Thank you to all parents, guardians and relatives who came to our Working Bee and to our recent Parent Meeting. It is great to have a “family” culture at the College.

As mentioned at the Parent Meeting, the College Board has asked me to assume the role of acting principal at Australian Christian College Burnie, until it appoints a new, permanent principal. I have acted in this position of interim principal in the past and I feel that it is a privilege to do so again, here at Somerset. We ask you to join us in praying for God’s choice of the new principal at ACC Burnie.

The College Board is committed to developing all three campuses of Australian Christian College in Tasmania. The College staff is committed to providing your children with an excellent Christian educational program in a safe, caring and happy learning environment.

I look forward to serving you, our students and our wonderful staff, as we continue to provide quality education for your children. I also look forward to getting to know many of you and your children during the time I have here at the College.

Yours for Christ and Christian education,

Terry HardingActing Principal

Bible memorisation

Students will be memorising, discussing and reflecting on 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 during the first 4 weeks of school. Please feel free to encourage your student to learn this passage and then to say it to their teacher.

Corinthians 13:4-8

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails.

Word meanings

Vs. 4 – “suffers long” – means to have a lot of patience

Vs. 6 – “iniquity” – means a wrong act; injustice

Learning at Australian Christian College Burnie

Australian Christian College is focussed to good teaching and learning. We are committed to your child’s intellectual, physical, spiritual and social development, as indicated in the development of Jesus when he was a teenager. Luke 2:52 helps us to understand these important aspects of a child’s development, stating that Jesus grew in “wisdom and stature and in favour with God and men”.

When it comes to learning, Jesus taught us that the “key to knowledge” and learning is for people to “enter in” to that knowledge (Luke 11:52). By “entering in” to knowledge, Jesus meant that people engage with what they are being taught, and that turns into learning.

True learning happens when a person accepts, receives and engages with the things that are being taught. It doesn’t matter if the things being taught are in the fields of Maths, English, Science, good manners, spiritual truth or character development; learners must engage with what they are being taught. True learning at school happens when your children engage with or “enter in” to what they are being taught.

At Australian Christian College, our staff are committed to assisting your children to engage with what they are being taught, so that they will be learning from their lessons, constantly throughout the academic year.

We are committed to your child being:

Well known

Well loved and

Well taught

Whole School

Creation Ministries

Creation Ministries are visiting ACC Burnie at 11 am on the 7th March 2018. Parents and friends warmly invited to attend.

SCHOOL BASED IMMUNISATION

Grade 7 and Grade 10 students have been given envelopes regarding school based vaccinations. The envelopes must be returned to the office by 21st February 2018 even

If your child is NOT having the vaccination.

COMMONWEALTH STUDENT BANKING

Student bank day is each Tuesday of the school term. Great rewards on offer this year.

We have flyers and information for parents at the office.

ACC receives an annual contribution each calendar year when our first School Banking deposit is processed. This is calculated on the number of students who made at least one deposit in the prior year. Also a regular savers contribution of $5 for every 10 school bankings deposits processed per student. NO minimum deposit.

Let’s encourage regular saving habits for our children.

HONEY-FUNDRAISING

We have tubs of honey available. Clover and Leatherwood 1.5KG for $15.00.

GYMNASTICS - PRIMARY CLASS

Our primary class will be going each Wednesday for 8 weeks, to the Zodiacs Gymnastic Club

at Wivenhoe 1:30pm to 2:30 pm for gymnastics.

SWIMMING LESSONS AT HEALTHGLO

Primary and High School students have ten swim lessons at Healthglo. Friday lessons 11:30 to 12:30 pm commencing 16th February. Also 23rd February and 2, 9, and 16th March 2018.

WELCOME TO OUR FIVE KINDER STUDENTS

Eden Enterprises

Eden Enterprises is a school-based food production business.

Eden Enterprises is starting again and we’re focusing on black berries.

Blackberries are for sale at 12 dollars per kilogram. If you would like to buy some blackberries please send the money to school in an envelope with the amount in it and how many kilograms required. Once at school the envelope can be given to a senior student. We will get your orders to you within 3 days.

It would be very helpful if you could bring ice-cream containers to school for our blackberries to go home in, thankyou.